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The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
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Reply.
It is not Aug. alone in Psal. 132. that must tell us which way the greatest Evidences of Antiquity go: and his reasoning that John must decrease, and Christ must increase, as proved by John's being born when the days ⟨p. 110⟩decrease, and Christs being born when the days increase, doth not much invite us to receive his Testimony. We conceive the Ancient opinion of Jerusalem, and other Eastern Churches that were nearest to the place, is a greater Argument for the contrary, then you have here given us for what you thus affirm: We might set Epiphanius against Augustine, and all the Greek Church, till in the midst of Chrysostom's time, when they changed their opinion. And in our time the judgment of the famous Chronologers, Scaliger, Beroaldus, Broughton, Capellus, Clopenburgius, with many others, are not contemptible, as set against such an unproved Assertion as this.